HOW LOCAL JURISDICTIONS FINANCE TRAFFIC-CALMING PROJECTS
This article presents findings from an extensive literature review and telephone survey of 63 local governments implementing traffic calming, and explains how these jurisdictions pay for their projects. This article reports that most jurisdictions in the U.S. rely on public funds, with a substantial minority requiring that residents, and sometimes developers, share the costs. City and county funding mostly comes from public works budgets, though traffic calming also has been funded from redevelopment programs and state traffic safety programs. Federal transportation funds were infrequently sought for traffic calming, principally because the application process was too costly and time consuming for small projects. Reliance on local financing tilts traffic-calming programs towards the cheapest installations, although in some situations a more costly device or strategy would be more satisfactory to the community at large. In addition, most localities have addressed traffic-calming needs on a spot-fix basis rather than through more costly, but potentially more effective, neighborhood or district plans.
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Corporate Authors:
Eno Transportation Foundation
1250 I Street, NW, Suite 750
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Authors:
- Weinstein, A
- Deakin, E
- Publication Date: 1999
Language
- English
Media Info
- Features: References; Tables;
- Pagination: p. 75-87
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Serial:
- Transportation Quarterly
- Volume: 53
- Issue Number: 3
- Publisher: Eno Transportation Foundation
- ISSN: 0278-9434
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: City government; County government; Financing; Local government; Traffic calming; Traffic control
- Subject Areas: Finance; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; I10: Economics and Administration;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00768159
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Aug 17 1999 12:00AM